DRM Applications

The MPAA estimates losses over $6 billion per year due to digital movie piracy. The RIAA estimates losses over $3 billion per year due to digital music piracy. The industry’s solution for content distribution is Digital Rights Management Compliance and Robustness Rules. Non-compliance results in significant penalties (up to $8 million dollars), damage to the brand, and revocation of device licenses.

Current digital rights management applications are all too easily hacked and even bypassed entirely, leading to rampant digital media piracy. Arxan fortifies DRM applications to durably protect your application without disrupting the end user experiences. Our solution enables developers to quickly, effectively secure sensitive routines, allowing content providers to focus maximum attention on user-oriented features.

How can I conform to the Digital Rights Management compliance and
robustness rules?

There are different robustness rules for different DRM platforms and technologies. While similar in intent and structure, they impose a range of different requirements on conformant products. DRM platforms and products directly handling controlled content are generally required to meet a higher robustness bar, which generally rises as value of content increases. In contrast, applications implementing user functionality on top of DRM platforms generally have fewer robustness requirements.

Arxan abstracts the complexities and details of individual robustness rules by providing customers with corresponding levels of assurance. Arxan can determine and provide the level of assurance that you need for whatever multimedia security technology you use and guarantee protection based on your specific target level of assurance.

How do I implement a comprehensive solution without impacting the end user experience?

Some protection solutions impose large (up to 20%) performance penalties. These solutions force the developer to choose between performance impact and percentage of application that is secured. This is an unacceptable trade-off.

Arxan protects at the binary, not the source code, level, ensuring that your application’s performance is not comprised. Furthermore, Arxan does not compete with your compiler or optimizer. Test results have shown that the impact of Arxan on run-time performance of protected programs is very low. Arxan provides total security coverage with total application performance.

How do I ensure my DRM security strategy is resilient to attacks and breaches?

No security solution can claim that their system will never be comprised. A determined professional hacker with unlimited time and ability can hack almost any software. Therefore, your solution needs to provide renewability of protection.

In the unlikely event that Arxan’s protection is compromised. Arxan streamlines the response by allowing you to renew the protection quickly and effectively. This can be accomplished without affecting the software development cycle or overall functionality of the software because the updated protection is inserted in the legacy binary without modifying the source code. Arxan security experts constantly monitor hacker techniques, and continually enhance our Guard library to keep you ahead of the pirates.